Our Mission within Stardale is to provide life skills and literacy education, as well as advocacy to marginalized women living in poverty and abusive situations, toward empowering their lives, their families, and their communities, thus overcoming systemic barriers.

About Stardale Women's Group Incorporated

Stardale has twenty-eight plus years of experience working specifically in the areas of violence and abuse prevention with Indigenous women and girls. Using the Stardale Model, an example of “Best Practices for Indigenous Programming” developed in Saskatchewan; the Stardale Women’s Group helps to fill the gap in services for Indigenous girls. As well as the National Centre for Collaboration for Indigenous Education paper for the Youth Secretariat named Stardale as an organization “What are best practices that the Youth Secretariat can employ when engaging with Indigenous youth in Canada?” 

Education ... the new buffalo ©

For our Ancestors, the Buffalo sustained and nourished our Indigenous way of life for thousands of years.

Now the Buffalo is gone.

Only through education will our people rise again to take their rightful place as equal partners in a new Canada.

For our children, Education must become the new Buffalo. ©        Our focus is on reliable and continuous programming exclusively for Indigenous girls, youth and women promises a more sustainable and adaptable mechanism for their empowerment in Mohkinstsis Treaty 7.  Co –creation is more than collaboration. It occurs when individuals bring all that each can offer to a joint effort and, at the same time, open themselves to a larger or higher idea that may not have previously occurred to any of them. At Stardale all the artistic projects, that we initiate are done through discussion and feedback with the girl participants. This is folded into a holistic view of story telling.

Stardale in conjunction with a series of partners introduced a holistic, asset - based approach to understanding girls’ lives. The asset building strategy included the social, personal, physical, human, and financial elements in educating the girls to broaden their outlook of their future and to develop a new direction through change. The Model is multi-disciplinary along with preventative intervention strategies to socio–economic achievement.  It has been through our unique program design that we have implemented change for the girls, their families, and the community.

The girls in the Stardale program are being mentored to be leaders. It is their contributions as co-creators in all the program processes; their imagination and storytelling; their courage to give voice to difficult to talk about topics that are truly inspirational. At the heart of the Model and the projects lies the ability to bond/connect the girls with other women in the community. By bringing in women who are service providers, corporate employees, community workers, health professionals, both formally and informally, we begin the process of mentoring. To heighten public awareness requires the broaden approach of mentoring that engages whole communities. Through innovative approaches of community mobilization, the girls of Stardale engage in the planning, strengthening their assets to create new opportunities or linkages to existing community businesses, institutions, or organizations.

The format of each program includes a community development project that gives the girls an opportunity to directly be part of the improvement of their communities.  This aspect of the program reinforces the power the girls must effect change and to look critically at the processes in their environments that they would like to impact upon.  Thus, the community resources which support the offering of Stardale programs come full circle by executing a development project which gives back to the community invokes the teachings of the Medicine Wheel. 

Committing the Prelude link on Indigenous youth suicide  

https://youtu.be/1QDeYA15dvU

Hope Feeds The Heart 

https://youtu.be/cM_6yHSIcnM

https://youtu.be/VnxhGJ-Ib9g